President Joe Biden released a statement Friday declaring that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) “has become part of our Constitution.”
Biden asserted that as of 2020, 38 states have ratified the amendment and stated it should now be recognized as “the law of the land,” according to a White House press release. The amendment is meant to ensure equal rights for men and women in the U.S., but some interpretations of the text have implied it would erase gender distinctions and grant abortion protections.
“The American Bar Association (ABA) has recognized that the Equal Rights Amendment has cleared all necessary hurdles to be formally added to the Constitution as the 28th Amendment,” the White House statement reads. “I agree with the ABA and with leading legal constitutional scholars that the Equal Rights Amendment has become part of our Constitution.”
“As Archivist and Deputy Archivist of the United States, it is our responsibility to uphold the integrity of the constitutional amendment process and ensure that changes to the Constitution are carried out in accordance with the law,” Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan and Deputy Archivist William J. Bosanko said in a statement in Dec. 2024. “At this time, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) cannot be certified as part of the Constitution due to established legal, judicial, and procedural decisions.”
The National Archives informed the Daily Caller News Foundation that this remains their position and that “the underlying legal and procedural issues have not changed.”
“Equality is a fundamental promise of our democracy,” Vice President Kamala Harris wrote in a statement Friday. “That is why the Equal Rights Amendment belongs in our Constitution. It makes our nation stronger, and it is the law of the land because the American people have spoken in states across our nation.”
The amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed to be ratified by the required three-quarters of states within the seven-year deadline.
Biden’s announcement was released as the president has only two full days remaining in office.
Former Democratic Missouri Rep. Cori Bush and Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley revived the push for the amendment in 2023, stating its necessity due to “Women and LGBTQ folks facing daily sexism, pregnancy discrimination, pay inequity, sexual violence, and persistent legislative attacks on our bodily autonomy.”
The ERA could potentially eliminate single-sex spaces --- such as bathrooms and locker rooms — as it does not define “sex” and could be interpreted to include gender identity.
Biden previously tried to rewrite of Title IX to include protections for “gender identity,” though this rule was ultimately shot down by a federal court in January and later revoked by the administration.
The White House did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/17/joe-biden-declares-equal-rights-amendment-part-of-constitution/
"The amendment was passed by Congress in 1972 but failed to be ratified by the required three-quarters of states within the seven-year deadline."
SHEESH nothing means anything to them anymore.
It's all for the show to squash the Democrat Party. We can't get emotional; that's what they want.
How are sleeper's though not waking up?
This is just Biden throwing a final FU to the American people, and especially to the idiots that actually voted for him.
He can’t. The ‘We The People’ need to vote on changes or additions.
You do. Through your federal AND state legislatures.
Good try, but NAH.
At this stage of the plan, you just have to laugh at the absurdity of the liberals.
It’s 3:45 Eastern as I write this. In 68 hours and 15 minutes all this will be over and nothing Biden says or does will stand. Hopefully, by the end of this year, we can undo everything Obama did.
You left out what Bush/Cheney made Obama do. Plus, all the bull crap policies those to traitors implemented, e.g., The Patriot Act.
Party's over, ya buncha shmucks!!!
If he really cared, he would have announced this 4 years ago when Virginia ratified an out of date amendment. Whomever made this is position is an idiot.
Or....
What if this is to get Dems to call for a Constitutional Convention? Anything goes during them. Could there be term limits on the table?
A constitutional convention is the worst possible thing that could happen to this country. If we can't control the Demonrats and their RINO pets now, how the hell do you think we will be able to control them when they decide on the rules that will govern how such a convention will function?
Anything that would come out of a constitutional convention, or a convention of the states, or whatever the hell else you prefer to call it would be far more likely to destroy the Constitution and the entire country than to improve either of them.
The ERA literally says no distinction in law between men and women. That's it. I vaguely remember one of the anti arguments had to do with shared restrooms. Unthinkable at the time, so dismissed.
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